The UK allowed the terrorist organisation LTTE representatives to live in that country,and the LTTE used to issue statements. Even the UN has declared the LTTE ,a terrorist organisation. Will the UK agree for an international probe ,on this issue,as it is pressurising Sri Lanka to do so?

No matter what the feeling of the Tamils, the civil war was always wrong.
They are the ones who started it, and never expected it to end the way it did.
Brutality is part of war - once you start it, don't expect other's to be docile.

It does seem to me that the peace is a better peace then I had expected. There is also a reconciliation committee in the process

Poverty India has become a laughing stock today because of Mallus at South Block:

1-Recently following the death of a Nigerian in Goa police started to arrest Nigerians...Ambassador of Nigeria in Delhi threatend if this goes on All Indians in Nigeria will be rounded up and deported...moreoever this diplomat sent warning SMS to police chief in Goa...No country will tolerate this except India.

2- Indian High Commissioner in Male (Maldives) was stoned in day light.

Here are the latest actions of Barbaric SL government HOW IT RESPECT COMMONWEALTH VALUES :

1-Opposition leader was attacked in day light in front of police.

2-The train carried Channel-4 journalists stoped by force in Vavunia by Sinhala goons who doesn`t know what is this Channel-4.THIS WSA ORGANISED BY SINHALA GOVERNMENT TO THREATEN JOURNALISTS.

3- BBC reporter was not allowed to go near SL Sinhala President and security staff confisticated the BBC cameras.

4-All foreign journalists are being followed by Sinhala death squads.

Is this type of place Commonwealth Secretariat selected to hold CHOGM by Kamalesh Sharma who has bent down supporting his decisions and SL government ? Sharma is really working for Commonwealth or someone else?

From day one it is the poverty India worked day and night to organise CHOGM in Sri Lanka to white wash the war crime.It is the same poverty India supplied weapons,tanks,planes,chemicals and even troops to masscare Tamils in N-E Sri Lanka.Because of blood in her own hand poverty India is scared to even raise a token protest against SL government even after 800 Indian Tamil fishermen killed by Sinhala navy but when 3 Kerala fishermen were killed by Italian security guard India went to the extent of breaking diplomatic relation with Italy.Another justice to Kerala.

Are we a part of India? this voice is growing daily in Tamil Nadu.

Indian SOUTH BLOCK mallus and same in UN New York work so hard to save Sri Lanka regime and Kamalesh Sharma an ex-Indian Diplomat is now joined with this clique.Sharma almost works like private secretary to SL President.

Private bank accounts of Indian staff invlove in Sri Lanka in London,Delhi and New York should be investigated,

Zimbawe and Fiji were thrown out from commonwealth for minor problems but Sri Lanka No:1 human rights violater in the world is holding CHOGM and SL President will be the President of commonwealth for another 2 years.What happend to the values of Commonwealth ???????

Kudoos for Sharma for making CHOGM a joke for reason only known to him.

Woman Mohan Singh non participation is another eyewash to fool Indian Tamils who have demanded total boycott.

The barber stood mute or rather was in his harem, while the indians offered Helicopter gunships / satellite images / other military hardware to the SLA, now the barber feels pity for the SL Tamils and demands a boycott of CHOGM.

The Congress has nothing much to gain or lose in Tamilnadu by way of seats. Coalition partners don't join the main party in a coalition to oblige it. They are hard-headed people very clear about how to get their selfish, short-sighted ends. They have no principle that can not be abandoned in self-service. By PM not going to the CHOGM in Sri Lanka, India's objectives in foreign policy have been compromised to the internal expediency. To permiit states to veto down the Central government does not augur well for India. This is the second instance in recent years where a State government has over-ruled the Central Government in what is unambiguously a central domain under the constitution. The first was when the Chief Minister of West Bengal thwarted the move for a settlement on sharing of the waters of the Teesta river with Bangladesh.

I ask the editorial team of Economist to guard against partisan views expressed in its pages by biased authors. I would bet a substantial amount of my money on the probability that the author 'AR' is of Arian-Indian origin unlike the Dravidians of Tamil Nadu. Transcending national and regional interests, many Indians are plagued by a deep, genetic level divide between the North and the South (Or Arian-Dravidian) which greatly influences, consciously or otherwise, their decision making. Dissecting decisions made by Indian politicians are better carried out by western experts who, perhaps, would not suffer from strong underlying bias.

You are absolutely right.The same logic,of course, applies to the decisions made by politicians in the Western countries plagued by deep racial divisions.These decisions have to be dissected by the Eastern experts.

You are wrong, Christian Missionaries are NOT in the list of appeasement by the Khan Grace,its only the Moslems that are better off under the Khan Grace Regime,they launder the illeagal money of the Khan Grace thru various shoddy biz operations.

The author appears to talk about democracy, but when it comes to decisions of foreign policy, he or she wants India to ignore Tamil Nadu's opinion. Is it author's own inconsistency that he seems to accuse India of, for whatever reason not spelt out in this article.

If India would mind its own business like China does, the Indian people would have made greater progress than the Chinese. After all, they had from 1947 to begin economic progress whereas the Chinese began only 1979, a good 37 years later.

What's the point of democracy when you have no future and abjectly poor(for millions of Indians)? You cannot eat democracy!

India is in no position to do what the US does i.e. interfering with everybody's business; and look at the impoverishment it has brought to millions of Americans.

Mr. Singh, look after your own, please. Your poor and hungry need you to do more! Stop meddling with Sri Lanka's Tamil problems which India has a hand in helping to create years ago! You are treating the Kashmiris no better!

Mr. Singh, look after your own, please. Your poor and hungry need you to do more! Stop meddling with Sri Lanka's Tamil problems which India has a hand in helping to create years ago! You are treating the Kashmiris no better!]

Why not practise what you preach and stop meddling with India's problems?

Your lament is valid. But you should not criticise Indians for their lack of competence. Instead, you should blame god for not giving Indians the same intelligence that Chinese have! The intelligence gap between Chinese and Indians is huge!

After reading your comment,I know you have little knowledge about China now.As an evilest regime,in fact,China government does far more and better for the poor than India.I am sure that the poor in China will have an armed uprising against the government and kill every government employees they meet if China government does as same as India's.Democracy is important for a country,but democracy in India is only a lie.India and its "democracy" still is a joke for China.If China need more democracy,it will learn from other advanced countris,not India.

You are right,China isn't a model and for most countries and also have a lot of bad experiences about which every body including China government itself know well,every counry should have its own road.After all,Our Oriental Civilization is very different with Western Civilization or Indian,African or ME Civilization.

China hardly minds it's own business, for the Chinese, everything is "their" business, so they are invariably entangled in places they step in to. China cannot keep feeding illegitimate and brutal regimes just for the sake of raw materials and food from those countries, Africa is a pretty good example. Unlike India, China has fought with most of its neighbors (USSR, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines and the list goes on). Are you telling me that China's neighbors are aggressors while China is minding its own business?

Whats the point of living and eating under a totalitarian regime where you have to get visa's to move inside your own country, where you have to get permission from your govt to rear children and you are thrown out of your house and belongings when a local party chief figures that your house is in the way of his spanking 6 landed high way to no where and so on. To each its own, you have to enjoy freedom before you can diss it. So far the Chinese have not earned that right. But again, what ever floats your boat, if the people of China are happy with the food and regime, so be it.

India did not create the tamil unrest in Srilanka, the majority Sinhalese did by denying citizenship to thousands of their citizens and by treating their minority as second class citizens. Go "read" the history.

Should the headline be - "How can poor countries afford to go to CHOGM meetings?" Indeed why spend on airline tickets to Sri Lanka when you can spend on the poor? Or was that specific only to India's space program?

Also, the link in the last paragraph is non existent, as in it refers to a location on your computer :-)

Manmohon Sing is appointed P.M. by Sonia Gandhi so he have no power to take any decision.Sonia Gandhi`s only aim to place Her son Rahul on P.M.post so she had taken extreme decision.She is worry about support of DMK or ADMK in next general election to her party.so she prevented P.M.from commonwealth meeting,this is extreme step for small gain, in long run this decision cost great loss to India but narrow minded pigmy politicians always ready to suicide,who can prevent them?

The Tamils in the southern state of Tamilnadu are agitated that their counterparts in Northern Sri Lanka are being humiliated and discriminated against by the Singhalese dominated government.They had also previously supported the LTTE in their struggle for an independent Tamil State in Sri Lanka.This has not been the case with the rest of India,especially after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.This turned everybody else in India against the Tamil Tigers,who have little respect for their brethren in Tamilnadu.The Prime Ministers decision not to attend the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka is due to pressure from Tamilnadu and from some of his own Tamil ministers. The Commonwealth as an institution is not relevant anymore.There is deep division between the white members of the Commonwealth and the others.This was particularly evident during the last Commonwealth games in Delhi when the western press went hammer and tongs to discredit the games from the very beginning.Attending the Commonwealth summit is no big deal for India.